November/December 2023 Exhibition
ANNIE HERRERO FROM THE GROUND, UP
ANNIE HERRERO
November/December Catalog 2023 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Ave. Kansas City, MO 64108 Gallery Director: Sherry Leedy Catalog Design Elise Gagliardi SherryLeedy.com IG:SherryLeedyContemporaryArt FB:SherryLeedyContemporaryArt @SherryLeedyContemporaryArt Photography By: EG Shempf
FROM THE GROUND, UP November - December 2023
From the Ground, Up Artist Statement From the Ground, Up
I’ve always considered myself a homebody, but in truth, much of my adult life has been
nomadic. Like many people, the variety of places I’ve lived has been near panoramic, from a
garage studio in California, to a pine paneled room in Norway, to every iteration of apartment in Chicago and New York. Perhaps the immediate impulse to personalize my living spaces
provided enough continuity to create a self perception more domestic than my history attested.
In any case, this impulse offered a counterpoint to my peripatetic existence. Driven by the
search for something, be it skill, opportunity, or fullness, the actual constant was movement. I was born and raised in California but I spent at least part of each summer in the Midwest. My
Mom’s family is from Kansas City and every time I left I had a deep longing for its intimate
hedgerows and big skies. During the pandemic, when I landed in the old familial lake cabin, that I visited while growing up, the decision to permanently relocate was an obvious one. My roots
here are deep and I have found the landscape of my heart. That nomadic tendency has abated,
the stillness now allowing for the growth I once found only in movement. The natural world—
its cycles, its patterns, its fields and gnarled trees—is the wellspring for my current body of work. Two figures continually appear in these images, that of myself and that of my dear friend, Lissa. We have known each other a long time, having met when we lived in the Bay Area. Lissa and I reconnected in entirely serendipitous circumstances, having each independently moved to Missouri in 2020. As our friendship deepened, so did my relationship to the land and my
perception of this place I call home. This body of work takes our likenesses to explore different aspects of life in Missouri, from post-Roe trigger bans to the softness of a more earth-based lifestyle.
Doe Season 2023 Oil on Linen 40” x 48”
West Meadow, Summer 2023 Oil on Linen 14” x 11”
West Meadow, Fall 2023 Oil on Linen 14” x 11”
West Meadow, Spring 2023 Oil on Linen 14” x 11”
Hedge at Fruitbat Farms, Noon 2023 Oil on Linen 12” x 9”
Hedge at Fruitbat Farms, Afternoon 2023 Oil on Linen 12” x 9”
Hedge at Fruitbat Farms, Early Evening 2023 Oil on Linen 12” x 9”
Hunter/ Hunted 2023 Oil on Linen 48” x 42”
Old Cedar Tree 2023 Oil on Linen 16” x 12”
Crossing 2022 Oil on Linen 18” x 14”
Bird Watchers 2023 Oil on Linen 34” x 42”
Second-Class Citizen 2022 Oil on Linen 14” x 11”
Spectre 2023 Pastel on Paper 20” x 14”
States Rights 2023 Oil on Linen 42” x 48”
Flint Hill Sunrise 2023 Oil on Linen 9” x 12”
Flint Hill Midday 2023 Oil on Linen 9” x 12”
West Meadow Winter 2022 Oil on Linen 8” x 9”
West Meadow Winter Two 2022 Oil on Linen 8” x 10 “
Lotawana Moon 2023 Oil on Linen 8” x 10”
From The Mirror 2023 Oil on Linen 14” x 11”
In the Midwest 2021 Graphite on Paper 17” x 14”
Annie Herrero Bio Annie Herrero currently lives and works in Missouri. She apprenticed with Norwegian contemporary figurative painter, Odd Nerdrum, at his property on the North Sea in 2014. Her time in Norway continues to influence her work by grounding her practice in a humanist approach. In 2016, Annie moved to New York to train at the Grand Central Academy, where she focused on developing strategies to draw the figure. She earned her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2020. During Annie’s time at NYAA, she was awarded a two month residency in Leipzig, Germany. This residency was formative to her current drawings and paintings, as she shifted from smaller compositions to larger, more complex images of the figure in the landscape. Annie is the recipient of two Posey Foundation Scholarships, the Grand Central Academy Cast Drawing Scholarship, two NYAA President’s Scholarships, The NYAA Leipzig Residency, and the Eric Fischl Teaching Residency. Annie Herrero’s work is exhibited throughout the United States and in Denmark. Her paintings and drawings are represented in collections in Norway, Ireland, England, Taiwan, Denmark, Sweden, and the U.S.
Annie Herrero CV Education MFA, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, August, 2020. Grand Central Atelier, Drawing and Painting coursework intensive, New York, NY, 2016-2018. The Nerdrum School (apprenticeship with Odd Nerdrum), Stavern, Norway, 2014. BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2009. Awards and Residencies Eric Fischl Teaching Residency, 2021. Professional Mentorship Program with Bo Bartlett, New York Academy of Art, 2020. World Wide Kitsch Competition, winner, 2nd place, 2019. Leipzig Residency, New York Academy of Art, 2019. President’s Scholarship, New York Academy of Art, 2019, 2018. Posey Foundation Scholarship, 2018. Cast Drawing Scholarship, Grand Central Atelier, 2017. Posey Foundation Scholarship, 2016. Academic Incentive Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007. Transfer Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007. Selected Exhibition History From the Ground, Up, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO, 2023. Gallery Poulsen’s Winter Salon, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022. Anne Herrero, West Nottingham Academy, Colora, MD, 2021. Herrero, Harvey, and Smith, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2021. Summer Invitational, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO, 2021. Eye to Eye, New York, NY, 2020. —curated by John L. Thomson. Thomson is on the board of trustees of MOMA PS1, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and on the Modern Women’s Council of the Museum of Modern Art. Drawing paired with a painting by Vin- cent Desiderio in Thomson’s collection. Take Home A Nude, Sothebys, New York, NY, 2019. Leipzig Residency Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, 2019. Persona, The Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany, 2019. Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art, 2019. Deck the Walls, New York, NY, 2018. Anne Herrero, San Anselmo Arts Council, San Anselmo, CA, 2014. Nerdrumklanen, Raugland Atelier, Stavern, Norway, 2014. 50th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA, 2013.
Continued Exhibition History Paddle 8 Tribeca Ball Fundraiser, New York, NY, 2020. Deck the Walls, New York, NY, 2019. Paddle 8 Tribeca Ball Fundraiser, New York, NY, 2019. Timeless, IX Gallery, 2019. Grand Central Atelier Exhibition, Eleventh Street Arts, New York, NY, 2018. Grand Central Atelier Exhibition, Eleventh Street Arts, New York, NY, 2017. Anne Herrero, The Konditorei, Portola Valley, CA, 2015. Anne Herrero, Magnolia Gallery, Ross, CA, 2015. Recent Work, Marin Academy, San Rafael, CA, 2015. Feminine Tropes, Café Arrivederci, San Rafael, CA, 2014. Tarot: The Art of Fortune, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2013. Mill Valley Art Festival, Mill Valley, CA Art in Focus, Rogue Gallery, New York, NY, 2011. RAW, The Uptown, Oakland, CA, 2011. Rural, The Salami Factory, Fairfax, CA, 2011. Reflections in Yesterday, 142 Throckmorton, Mill Valley, CA, 2010. Sketch for Japan, Project One Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2010. Warhol Reimagined, Project One Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2010. S RAW, The Uptown, Oakland, CA, 2010. Opening, The Gallery of Sea and Heaven, Santa Rosa, CA, 2010. Residents’ Exhibition, Galleria ISA, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy, 2010. 5th Annual National Self-Portrait Exhibition, 33 Collective, Chicago, IL, 2009. Spring Undergraduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, 2009.
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